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   Message 1,612 of 2,576   
   j to amdx   
   Re: Passive Solar Heating Panels   
   06 Feb 13 18:50:27   
   
   From: mung_me@att.net   
      
   On 2/6/2013 7:53 AM, amdx wrote:   
   > On 2/5/2013 11:42 AM, j wrote:   
   >> On 2/3/2013 6:17 PM, Morris Dovey wrote:   
   >>> On 2/3/13 11:53 AM, j wrote:   
   >>   
      
   >>   
   >   Still OT.   
   >    If you can tell your sewer line story I can tell mine.   
   >   
   > My drains were running slow, I tried drain cleaners, snaking from   
   > in the house, nothing helped. I needed to bite the bullet, and spend a   
   > weekend digging up the yard and installing a clean out so I could snake   
   > the run to the road.   
   >   I got a 3 ft piece of 1/4" rod and poked the ground to locate and mark   
   > where the sewer line ran. I started digging early Saturday morning, on   
   > my third shovel I hit the pipe, on the fourth I saw a brass clean out plug.   
   >   
   > Eureka!!   
      
      
   I like your luck better than mine!   
      
     Jeff   
   >   
   > There is a clean out I didn't now about, and I hit it in 4 shovels. I   
   > removed the plug (destroying it), went and rented the power snake   
   > and bought a new plug. By noon I was done. If I had started digging a   
   > foot closer to the road I would have missed the clean out and spent the   
   > weekend digging.   
   >   The clean out is well marked, now.   
   >                             Mikek   
   >   
      
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